Robert Menendez actually said...

"Oil sanctions by the U.S. Government would be a reward for the Caracas Government and its Cuban partners."

"The United States will not stand by an idly watch as the rights of people, with whom we share this hemisphere, are systematically violated by an anti-American government."

"The defining issue of current-day Venezuela is the wholesale, state-sanctioned, and amply documented violation of human rights of those who oppose the government."

"The United States should rally other Latin American leaders to condemn human rights violations in Venezuela."